Civilisation never looked back. Knowledge is power, as the saying goes, and the invention of the mechanical movable type ...

Bay County, Fla. (WMBB) – The invention of the printing press was the beginning of mass communications, you might say it was ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity’s most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1440.

The printing press is “a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter”, explained History.com. Before its invention, all manuscripts had to be written out by hand ...